Science & Technology audiobooks

Why You Love Music

By: John Powell

Narrated by: Phil Fox

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.

Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people... Read more

Cracking the Aging Code

By: Josh Mitteldorf & Dorion Sagan

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it.

In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more complex and breathtaking than we originally thought.... Read more

Code Warriors

By: Stephen Budiansky

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades
 
The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the... Read more

The Heart of the Wild

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Williams tells the story of her initiation by the living land when she was 7 years old. While taking a school trip she ended up alone, in the dark, in Mount Timpanogos Cave. For a brief but powerful moment she felt the beating heart of the mountain. She says, “For the rest of my life I’ve been trying to retrieve that sacred space I felt inside... Read more

Whoosh!

By: Chris Barton

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Lonnie Johnson was always building things. As a kid he made rockets. As a teenagerhe built a robot from scratch. As an adult he worked for NASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory on the Galileo orbiter and probe that studied Jupiter.And then one day, while hooking up his latest inventionto the bathroom sink to test it out …WHOOSH!Water shot across the... Read more

Ordinarily Well

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked with pioneers in psychopharmacology, Kramer combines moving... Read more

The Hour of Land

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Williams

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns... Read more

The Inevitable

By: Kevin Kelly

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives

Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating,... Read more

Grunt

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Abby Elvidge

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.... Read more

Why Diets Make Us Fat

By: Sandra Aamodt

Narrated by: Sandra Aamodt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“If diets worked, we'd all be thin by now. Instead, we have enlisted hundreds of millions of people into a war we can't win." 
 
What’s the secret to losing weight? If you’re like most of us, you’ve tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar for Splenda. The real secret is that all of those things are... Read more

The Pet Show, Vol. 5

By: Warren Eckstein

Narrated by: Warren Eckstein

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hosted by renowned pet psychologist and behaviorist Warren Eckstein, The Pet Show tackles America’s toughest pet problems. With topics like “what to expect from your pet when you’re expecting” and “pet body language,” listeners will learn how to better understand and care for their furry friends. Read more

Engineering Eden

By: Jordan Fisher Smith

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness as told through the prism of a tragic death at YellowstoneWhen twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness... Read more

Make a Choice

By: Jeff Benedict

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Extraordinary stories of people who have survived life’s most heart-wrenching tragedies and whose Christian faith has remained unshakable.New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live... Read more

Eccentric Orbits

By: John Bloom

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of Iridium—the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history—and one man’s desperate race to save it.In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company, developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium... Read more

The Book of Human Emotions

By: Tiffany Watt Smith

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both broad and outrageously specific, from throughout history and around the world.

How do you feel today? Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok or... Read more

The Enchiridion & Discourses

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchiridion is the famous manual of ethical advice given in the second century by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.

Born to a Greek slave, Epictetus grew up in the environment of the Roman Empire and, having been released from bonds of slavery, became a Stoic in the tradition of its originators, Zeno (third Century BCE) and Seneca (first... Read more

Seven Secrets of Mindfulness

By: Kate Carne

Narrated by: Becky Moult

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

'Wonderful...full of skilful guidance...a lifeline' Prof Mark Williams

Mindfulness remains as popular as ever. Yet those who are drawn to it may face challenges such as lack of time, physical pain, anxiety, depression or uncertainty. In this ground-breaking book, Kate Carne shows how to deal with the many problems that can arise, and offers... Read more

Standard Deviations

By: Gary Smith

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A very entertaining book about a very serious problem. We deceive ourselves all the time with statistics, and it is time we wised up.” –Robert J. Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with the letter “D” are more likely to die young? Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to... Read more

The Jazz of Physics

By: Stephon Alexander

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics’ most vexing... Read more

Fluke

By: Joseph Mazur

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln’s dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically, the odds are a lot better than any of us... Read more

Us versus Us

By: Andrew Marin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you believe that 86 percent of LGBT people—from the proud marcher at the Pride Parade to the quiet, closeted teen—spent their childhood in church? More than half of them left those religious communities as adults; three out of four would be happy to come back.



For decades now we have found ourselves caught up in a culture war: us versus... Read more

Unforbidden Pleasures

By: Adam Phillips

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures?



Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and... Read more

The First Signs

By: Genevieve von Petzinger

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey’s Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.Imagine yourself as a caveman or cavewoman. The place: Europe. The... Read more

Reason: Books I & II

By: Bo Bennett, PhD

Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is based on the first five years of The Dr. Bo Show, where Bo takes a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter with the goal of educating and entertaining.

Every chapter in the book explores a different aspect of reason by using a real-world issue or example.

Part one is about how science works even... Read more